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Song of the Day: Alan Palomo - Meutrière (Feat. Flore Benguigui)

July 20, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Alan Palomo’s forthcoming album World of Hassle

Song of the Day: Stylish, catchy Franco-Italo electro-pop banger by Texan band Neon Indian’s main man about a song taking place on a film set that explores the friction often felt between actors and their directors on a horror film set, joined here by L’Imperatrice’s singer Fleure Benguigui

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Song of the Day: N'Deko - Exile

July 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

N'Deko: Falle Nioke and Joe Goddard. Photo by Louise Mason

Song of the Day: A mightily catchy and soulful fusion of West Africa folk and London electronica as Guinea singer Falle Nioke joins up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard in their debut single, one about Falle’s melancholy in missing his homeland

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Song of the Day: Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

June 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

Song of the Day: Fabulously oddball and mesmeric electronica by the legendary British pioneer Richard James, who returns with his first music for five years, part of a double A-side single ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760’ out on 28 July via Warp Records

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Song of the Day: Jessica Winter - Choreograph (Limerence EP)

June 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jessica Winter

Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, genre-spanning, passionate pop by the soaring voiced singer-songwriter from south London from her latest EP, Limerence, wrestling various perspectives on the difficulties of love. Out on Lucky Number Music

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Song of the Day: Madeline Kenney – I Drew A Line

June 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Madeline Kenney forthcoming new LP A New Reality Mind

Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, clever alternative electro-pop/folk/rock by the artist from Oakland, California, with beautiful vocal harmonies, acoustic strings, sax, and synth lines, taken from her forthcoming new LP, A New Reality Mind, out on 28 July via Carpark Records

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Song of the Day: Jacana People & Antony Szmierek - Twist Forever

June 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Jacana People & Antony Szmierek - Twist Forever

Song of the Day: With array of twinkly electronics and dance beats by the British production duo of Aaron Miller and Robert Wheatley, an uplifting, reflective number featuring the Mancunian poet about making the most of your time when life is short

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Song of the Day: Magia Bruta - Biking (Algo mejor)

June 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Magia Bruta’s latest album, Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records

Song of the Day: Following yesterday’s experimental Snowapple track, some beautifully floating and ethereally alternative electronica, dream pop and folk by the Barcelona band, the latest single from their current album Un día nuevo, out on Foehn Records

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Song of the Day: Snowapple - I, CYBORG

June 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the video for Snowapple’s I, CYBORG

Song of the Day: Innovative, strange, dark and mesmeric, this new single by the Netherlands-based international art collective focuses gender and politics through a cyborg prism with beguiling, gradually building alt pop, art rock, cyberpunk and sonic synth landscapes

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Song of the Day: Holly Walker - How Can I Tell You

June 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Holly Walker

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Margaret Glaspy, another track about feeling uncertain how to respond over a relationship, here with the beautifully haunting voice and melody of London singer-songwriter

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Song of the Day: Saya Gray - DIZZY PPL BECOME BLURRY (from QWERTY EP)

May 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Saya Gray’s new EP, QWERTY

Song of the Day: The opening track of the London experimental artist’s new 7-track EP is an extraordinary mix of rippling piano, electronica, thunderous drums and oddball-beautiful vocal harmonies

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Song of the Day: CLT DRP - New Boy

May 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

CLT DRP

Song of the Day: Striking, powerful, turbulent punk/electronica single by the Brighton trio with searingly candid lyrics about a stormy post-breakup state of mind, shouty vocals and electrifying stop-start rhythms

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Song of the Day: Ben Howard - Walking Backwards

May 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Things are looking up: Ben Howard

Song of the Day: An upbeat new piece of experimental dreamy electro-pop by the English singer-songwriter about resisting pressure to conform, even in the face of personal struggles, taken from his forthcoming fifth album, Is It?

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Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge

May 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Surusinghe number, a Saturday offering of dynamic and mesmeric electro-house dance music comes from the charismatic Vietnam-born, Cannes-based DJ and producer, who is also the great grandson of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso

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Song of the Day: Surusinghe - Skit

May 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Surusinghe

Song of the Day: A lively snap track for Friday packed with clever, innovative, intricately woven stop-start electronica, breaks, beats, sharp bass lines, textures and percussion in this latest single by the Naarm/Melbourne-born, London-based artist from her forthcoming new EP

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Song of the Day: Cosmo Sheldrake - Bathed In Sound (Wild Wet World EP)

May 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Cosmo Sheldrake’s new EP, Wild Wet World

Song of the Day: Inventive, inspiring, charmingly oddball new work by the British singer-songwriter and producer from his new EP, Wild Wet World, here the first of seven songs using a liquidity of samples of marine wildlife sounds

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Song of the Day: Ash Walker - Time Gets Wasted (featuring Denitia and Sly5thAve)

May 4, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ash Walker

Song of the Day: From the London multi-instrumentalist’s forthcoming LP, Astronaut following 2019’s Aquamarine, a beautifully luxuriant fusion of cosmic jazz, blues, soul, funk, piano, flute, brass, swinging, rippling rhythms and delicious guest vocals

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Song of the Day: Fran Lobo - Tricks

May 3, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Fran Lobo

Song of the Day: This stylish, engaging mix of theatrical/ stage musical, electronica, soul and 70s pop the new single by the London singer-songwriter and producer is about the mind games you play on yourself at the beginning of a new relationship

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Song of the Day: Patrick Wolf - Nowhere Game (The Night Safari EP)

April 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The return of Patrick Wolf

Song of the Day: Taken from his recent EP, The Night Safari, his first release for a decade, the multi-talented south Londoner singer and musician’s dynamic, dark new alternative baroque pop single is a fusion of electronica, viola, violin, Celtic harp, celeste, suitcase organ and bowed psaltery

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Song of the Day: Sahalé - Djiin

April 18, 2023 Peter Kimpton

From the cover of Sahalé’s Best, the album out on Inner Symphony

Song of the Day: A mesmeric piece of crisp, calming, meditative Middle East-inspired electronica by the artist Dimitri Tadeusz Wolski, from a new compilation out of Berlin label Inner Symphony, Sahalé’s Best

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Song of the Day: Mary Ocher - Love Is Not a Place (feat. Your Government)

April 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Mary Ocher’s

Song of the Day: Taken from the charity EP, Power and Exclusion from Power (out on Underground Institute) released on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a powerful anti-nationalist alternative electronica hymn by the Jewish-Ukranian political artist

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New Albums …

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Mar 17, 2026
The Sophs: Goldstar
Mar 17, 2026

New album: A fairytale story of a debut for the Los Angeles six-piece fronted by Ethan Ramon, who cold-emailed demos to Rough Trade Records before even playing a live gig and were signed – that instinctive leap of faith rewarded by this stylish, bold, mercurial, confident, darkly humorous, eclectic debut leaping between rock, indie, pop, hoedown country, delta blues and beyond

Mar 17, 2026
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Mar 13, 2026
Kim Gordon: Play Me
Mar 13, 2026

New album: Following 2024’s The Collective, the former Sonic Youth frontwoman’s fourth solo LP continues her extraordinary experimental, innovative journey, moving to more melodic beats and shorter tracks with a motorik krautrock-style driven coloured by strange sounds, intense emotions and sharply angled, dark, droll social commentary

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
ELIZA: The Darkening Green
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The London artist Eliza Caird (formerly under the mainstream pop moniker Eliza Doolittle) returns with more of the cool, slow, sensual, gentle, sophisticated experimental soul-funk style evolving from her 2022 album A Sky Without Stars, here with particularly polished, silky, stripped back grooves and vocals

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Andrew Wasylyk: Irreparable Parables
Mar 11, 2026

New album: The Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer returns with a new selection of soothing, meditative mix of experimental classical and jazz, but this time joined with six different singers represented by the birds on the album artwork

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
waterbaby: Memory Be A Blade
Mar 10, 2026

New album: A delicate, experimental, understated soulful chamber pop debut by the pure-voiced Stockholm-born singer-songwriter (aka Kendra Egerbladh) in 25-minute, eight-track release of lo-fi, lyrically semi-improvised numbers about heartbreak and self-renewal in a world of gorgeous musical sensations

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Joshua Idehen: I know you're hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try
Mar 10, 2026

New album: With a strikingly long title, a euphoric and honest full debut LP by the British-born Nigerian poet, spoken word artist and musician based in Sweden, working with his musical partner Ludvig Parment’s sonic layers, packed pacy dance and hip-hop grooves, clever sampling, slower reflections, and articulate expressions of positivity through the ups and downs of grief and hope

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Gnarls Barkley: Atlanta
Mar 10, 2026

New album: Finally, after an 18-year gap since their last collaboration in the heady days of the hit Crazy, with the St Elsewhere and The Odd Couple LPs a third and supposedly final album from fabulous singer CeeLo Green and producer and musician aka Brian Burton with a mix of soaring soul, hip-hop, pop and RnB with songs filled with vivid lyrical memories and strong, emotive melodies

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Various: HELP(2) - War Child Records
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Not only a timely and topical milestone charity record following the first in 1995 to help bring aid and wide variety of support to children in war zones around he world, but an impressive double-LP array of stellar British and international talent and powerful, poignant 23 songs from Arctic Monkeys to Young Fathers

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: We Are Together Again
Mar 9, 2026

New album: Just over a year after 2025’s The Purple Bird, but from parallel recording sessions and familiar co-musicians, the veteran Louisville-Kentucky singer-songwriter Will Oldham returns with another collection of exquisite, intimate, gently defiant lo-fi folk to troubled times, an ode to community with a beautiful array of acoustic instruments and his poignant, insightful lyrics and delivery

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 5, 2026
DEADLETTER: Existence Is Bliss
Mar 5, 2026

New album: This second LP by the South Yorkshire/London six-piece expands their post-punk sound palette with a collection of arresting, thrumming songs, often dark and challenging, with richly exploratory lyrics across dystopian and existential questions, yet despite a climate of difficult, shows how gasping for life’s oxygen is essential

Mar 5, 2026
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Mar 5, 2026
Lala Lala: Heaven 2
Mar 5, 2026

New album: Moving from Chicago to New Mexico, Reykjavík, then London and now Los Angeles, the UK-born artist Lillie West’s experimental indie dream pop is a fascinating release about restless escapism while trying to stay where she is

Mar 5, 2026
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Mar 3, 2026
Iron & Wine: Hen's Teeth
Mar 3, 2026

New album: Timeless, poetic, gentle folk-rock in this eighth solo album by the North Carolina multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Beam, in warm, tender album with a title that suggests the idea of the impossible yet real, and an earthier, darker, more more tactile companion to his Grammy-nominated 2024 album Light Verse

Mar 3, 2026
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Mar 3, 2026
Buck Meek: The Mirror
Mar 3, 2026

New album: The Brooklyn-based Texan guitarist of Big Thief returns with his fourth solo LP filled with tender, thoughtful, beautiful folk-country-rock, a tiny splash of analogue synths, joined by bandmate James Krivchenia as producer, Adrianne Lenker on backing vocals, plus guitarist Adam Brisbin and harp player Mary Lattimore

Mar 3, 2026
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Mar 1, 2026
Mitski: Nothing’s About To Happen To Me
Mar 1, 2026

New album: Following 2023’s acclaimed The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, now an eighth LP of sublime beauty, wit and melancholy and silken vocal tones from the American singer-songwriter, mixing pop, rock, echoes of Laurel Canyon era, and stories and metaphors of love and loss, insecurity, independence and solitude all set at home – and no shortage of cats

Mar 1, 2026

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Mar 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Kacey Musgraves - Dry Spell
Mar 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A catchy, witty, innuendo-filled new number about being and single and lonely, with some stylistic echoes of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, heralding the acclaimed Grammy-winning Texas country singer-songwriter’s upcoming seventh album, Middle of Nowhere, out 1 May on Lost Highway

Mar 17, 2026
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Mar 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Black Diamond
Mar 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A splendidly rousing eight-minute retro-style electro-pop baroque melodrama by the Finnish artist with the deep, rich voice, one that stylistically and in his own fashion, draws a pentagram between Goblin, Rondo Veneziano, Cerrone, Doris Norton and Lindstrom, out on Domino Records

Mar 16, 2026
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Mar 15, 2026
Song of the Day: Hannah Lew - Sunday
Mar 15, 2026

Song of the Day: An appropriate day to highlight this classy latest single of shimmering 80s-style synth-pop with echoes of OMD, with themes about pain, love and grief from the upcoming debut album by the Richmond, California artist, out on 10 April via Night School Records

Mar 15, 2026
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Mar 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Mei Semones - Tooth Fairy (featuring John Roseboro)
Mar 14, 2026

Song of the Day: A charming cross-genre fusion of bossa nova, jazz, folk and chamber pop sung in English and Japanese by the Brooklyn-based American musician with a tale of losing a tooth on the subway and friendship, from the upcoming album Kurage, out 10 April on Bayonet Records

Mar 14, 2026
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Mar 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Robyn - Blow My Mind
Mar 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Quirky, sensual electro-pop with a dash of Kraftwerk by the acclaimed Swedish singer, songwriter and producer Robin Miriam Carlsson, in this latest from the upcoming album Sexistential out on 27 March via Konichiwa / Young Records

Mar 13, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Lava La Rue - Scratches
Mar 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The latest single by the London singer-songwriter is punchy, powerful psychedelic rock number with tearing riffs and lyrics about damage from troubled relationship, abuse and self-harm, from the forthcoming EP Do You Know Everything?, out on BMG

Mar 12, 2026
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Mar 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - City of Symbols (featuring eejebee)
Mar 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A stylish fusion of electronica, soul, hip hop and Ethiopian rhythmic influences centring on themes of heritage, family by London singer, songwriter, producer and multidisciplinary artist, with drums from eejebee and guitar from Vraell, heralding from the forthcoming new debut Zero out 22 June via LDN Records / Because Music

Mar 11, 2026
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Mar 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Huarinami - Carried Away
Mar 10, 2026

Song of the Day: Explosive, stylish, gritty, restless indie-psychedelic punk with angular, angry guitars, driving bass and wonderfully arresting vocals by Pauline Janier (aka Cody Pepper) fronting the French London-based four-piece in this single fuelled by the frustration of big-city life, and heralding their sophomore EP Nothing Happens, due for release on 6 June

Mar 10, 2026
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Mar 9, 2026
Song of the Day: Avalon Emerson & The Charm - Written into Changes
Mar 9, 2026

Song of the Day: Following the singles Eden and Jupiter and Mars, another stylish, experimental indie synth-pop release by the New York artist with the title track of upcoming second Charm moniker album, out on 20 March via Dead Oceans

Mar 9, 2026
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Mar 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Aldous Harding - One Stop
Mar 8, 2026

Song of the Day: An enigmatic, oddly stylish, stripped back, piano-based new experimental folk single by the New Zealand singer-songwriter, namechecking John Cale, and from her upcoming album Train on the Island out May 8 via 4AD

Mar 8, 2026
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Mar 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Max Winter, Asha Lorenz & Rael - Candlelight
Mar 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A dark, stylish, striking fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, spoken word, and jazz by the London-based rapper and friends, and the the first single from the collaborative mixtape Like the season!, out on Secret Friend

Mar 7, 2026
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Mar 6, 2026
Song of the Day: SPRINTS - Trickle Down
Mar 6, 2026

Song of the Day: The feisty, ferociously fun Dublin post-punk band return with a punchy, on-point angry new number about the flawed economic term, watching systems fail in slow motion, housing crisis, rising costs, culture wars, climate collapse, and frustratingly being told to stay patient while everything burns

Mar 6, 2026

Word of the week

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Mar 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
Mar 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

Mar 12, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026
Word of the week: xiphias
Feb 25, 2026

Word of the week: Get the point? This is the scientific name for the swordfish, in full Xiphias gladius (from the Greek and Latin for sword), that extraordinary sea creature with the long, pointy bill. But what of it in song?

Feb 25, 2026
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Feb 12, 2026
Word of the week: yanggeum
Feb 12, 2026

Word of the week: A form or hammered dulcimer, this traditional Korean instrument, with a flat and trapezoidal shape, has seven sets of four metal strings hit by thin bamboo stick

Feb 12, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026

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